"""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" gives the player control of Indiana Jones as he makes his way through the temple in a series of 12 levels or ""waves."" In the final wave, the player must defeat the villain of the film, Mola Ram, on a rope bridge that recreates the final scene in the movie. Reception of the game was generally negative. The film version of ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" was released in 1984 and starred Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. A year later, in 1985, Atari Games capitalized on the franchise by releasing the"
"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third installment in the ""Indiana Jones"" franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry Jones, Sr. Other cast members featured include Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies. In the film, set largely in 1938, Indiana searches for his father, a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped by Nazis. After the mixed reaction to ""Indiana"
"as executive producer, while Kennedy and Marshall would serve as producers and Koepp as screenwriter. Williams would also return to compose the score. On April 24, 2017, Disney shifted the release date of the untitled ""Indiana Jones"" sequel from July 19, 2019 to July 10, 2020. Spielberg confirmed that filming would begin in April 2019 in the United Kingdom. In late 2017, David Koepp revealed that Shia LaBeouf's character Mutt Williams would not return. In July 2018, Disney pushed the film's release date back to July 9, 2021. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones and"
"claiming that the board had officially renamed Petra ""That Place from ""Indiana Jones"""" to reflect how the world more commonly refers to it. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third installment in the ""Indiana Jones"" franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry Jones, Sr. Other cast members featured include Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, and John Rhys-Davies. In the film, set largely"
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and the fourth installment in the ""Indiana Jones"" series. Released nineteen years after the previous film, the film is set in 1957, pitting Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) against Soviet agents—led by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett)—searching for a telepathic crystal skull. Jones is aided by his former lover, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), and her son, Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf). Ray Winstone, John Hurt, and Jim Broadbent are also part of the supporting cast."
"think of a good plot element to drive the next installment. The 2008 film, ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"", is the latest film in the series. Set in 1957, 19 years after the third film, it pits an older, wiser Indiana Jones against Soviet agents bent on harnessing the power of an extraterrestrial device discovered in South America. Jones is aided in his adventure by his former lover, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), and her son—a young greaser named Henry ""Mutt"" Williams (Shia LaBeouf), later revealed to be Jones' unknown child. There were rumors that Harrison Ford"
"would not return for any future installments and LaBeouf would take over the Indy franchise. This film also reveals that Jones was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II, attaining the rank of Colonel in the United States Army. He is tasked with conducting covert operations with MI6 agent George McHale against the Soviet Union. In March 2016, Disney announced a fifth ""Indiana Jones"" film in development, with Ford and Spielberg set to return to the franchise. Initially set for release on July 10, 2020, the film's release date was pushed back to July 9, 2021"
"in mid-2021. The series was created by George Lucas, and its films are directed by Steven Spielberg and star Harrison Ford as the title character. The Walt Disney Company has owned the ""Indiana Jones"" intellectual property since its acquisition of Lucasfilm, the series' production company, in 2012. Paramount retains the distribution rights to the first four films and television series. The franchise expanded to television in 1992 with the release of ""The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"", a series featuring adventures the character had as a child as he traveled around the world with his father. Marvel Comics began publishing ""The"
"Further Adventures of Indiana Jones"" in 1983, and Dark Horse Comics earned the comic book rights to the character in 1991. Novelizations of the films have been published, as well as many novels with original adventures, including a series of German novels by Wolfgang Hohlbein, twelve novels set before the films published by Bantam Books, and a series set during the character's childhood inspired by the television show. Numerous ""Indiana Jones"" video games have been released since 1982. The first film, ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981) is set in 1936. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is hired by government agents"
"first three films, but focuses on the plot of ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"". Social gaming company Zynga introduced Indiana Jones to their ""Adventure World"" game in late 2011. ""Indiana"" Jones's full name is Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr., and his nickname is often shortened to ""Indy"". In his role as a college professor of archaeology, Jones is scholarly and learned in a tweed suit, lecturing on ancient civilizations. At the opportunity to recover important artifacts, Dr. Jones transforms into ""Indiana,"" a ""non-superhero superhero"" image he has concocted for himself. Producer Frank Marshall said, ""Indy [is]"
"film, and details the character's early years. Numerous other books, comics, and video games have also been produced. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 60 on its top 100 films of the first century of cinema. In 2007, AFI updated the list and placed it at number 66. They also named it as the 10th most thrilling film, and named Indiana Jones as the second greatest hero. In 1999, the film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Indiana Jones"
"Jones and the Last Crusade"" (1989). He returned to the role yet again for a 1993 episode of the television series ""The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"", and even later for the fourth film ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"" (2008). On March 15, 2016, Walt Disney Studios announced that Ford was scheduled to portray Indiana Jones in a fifth film due for release in July 2019. However, on April 25, 2017 Walt Disney Studios announced that the film would be released on July 10, 2020. Ford has been in other films, including ""Heroes"" (1977), ""Force 10 from"
"of the 1987 film ""*batteries not included"". After two forays into more serious dramatic films, Spielberg then directed the third Indiana Jones film, 1989's ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"". Once again teaming up with Lucas and Ford, Spielberg also cast actor Sean Connery in a supporting role as Indy's father. The film earned generally positive reviews and was another box office success, becoming the highest-grossing film worldwide that year; its total box office receipts even topped those of Tim Burton's much-anticipated film ""Batman"", which had been the bigger hit domestically. Also in 1989, he re-united with actor Richard Dreyfuss"
"""Indiana Jones"" film franchise. In late 1977, after the successful reception of ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", Spielberg expressed interest in filming a sequel or a prequel. However, he later refused the idea, because he felt that ""The army's knowledge and ensuing cover-up is so subterranean that it would take a creative screen story, perhaps someone else making the picture and giving it the equal time it deserves"". He also didn't want developer Columbia Pictures to make a sequel without him, which had happened with Universal Pictures' ""Jaws"". In the late 1970s, Spielberg expressed interest in directing a film"
"Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix is a Dark Horse Comics limited series starring the fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones. It was the seventh ""Indiana Jones"" limited series by Dark Horse, and the sixth about the adult Indiana. The comic was based on a canceled LucasArts video game, a sequel to ""Fate of Atlantis"" (which was also the first Dark Horse ""Indiana Jones"" comic). The comic is set after World War II, with the Nazis seeking the Philosopher's Stone in an attempt to resurrect dead Nazis. Along with the beautiful Russian major Nadia, Indiana Jones"
"by an untitled fifth film, planned for release on July 9, 2021, with both Spielberg and Ford returning. In 1957, Indiana Jones and his partner George ""Mac"" McHale are kidnapped by Soviet agents under Colonel Dr. Irina Spalko, who infiltrate a secret Nevada warehouse labeled ""Hangar 51"" (which was featured in the end of the first film as the location of the Ark of the Covenant) and force Jones to locate a mummified corpse which he was ""forced"" by the government to recover from a wreckage at Roswell in 1947. Upon its discovery, Mac reveals he is a double agent"
"Jones"" film. On March 15, 2016, Walt Disney Studios announced that the fifth film would be released on July 19, 2019, with Ford reprising his role, Spielberg directing, Koepp writing and Kennedy and Marshall acting as producers. George Lucas was initially not going to be involved with the film. However, during a press event for Disney's ""The BFG"", Spielberg confirmed that Lucas will be returning as executive producer, stating ""I would never make an ""Indiana Jones"" film without George Lucas. That'd be insane."" Marshall has stated that the film would be a continuation of the events following ""Kingdom of the"
"were making in the mid- to late '60s"". Seitz also considers the ""nuke the fridge"" scene as one of the series' best, stating that ""It brings Indy forward into the world that birthed Steven Spielberg and his Boomer-fueled fantasies of earlier generations. And the construction of it, the shots and cuts, is brilliant. The ramping up. The satirical touches. And the 'nuclear family' pun at the heart of it."" On March 15, 2016, Walt Disney Studios announced that Spielberg and Ford were both set to return for a fifth ""Indiana Jones"" film, scheduled for release in 2019. Lucas would return"
"was the focus of a ""Young Indiana Jones"" series of young adult novels that began in 1990; by the ninth novel, the series had become a tie-in to the television show. German author Wolfgang Hohlbein revisited the 1912 prologue in one of his novels, in which Indiana encounters the lead grave robber—whom Hohlbein christens Jake—in 1943. The film's ending begins the 1995 comic series ""Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny"", which moves forward to depict Indiana and his father searching for the Holy Lance in Ireland in 1945. Spielberg intended to have Connery cameo as Henry in ""Kingdom of"
"and Sallah escape the temple and then ride off into the sunset. Lucas and Spielberg had intended to make a trilogy of ""Indiana Jones"" films since Lucas had first pitched ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" to Spielberg in 1977. After the mixed critical and public reaction to ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"", Spielberg decided to complete the trilogy to fulfill his promise to Lucas and ""to apologize for the second one"". The pair had the intention of revitalizing the series by evoking the spirit and tone of ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"". Throughout the film's development and pre-production,"
"supplied his voice for ""Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb"", and John Armstrong for ""Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings"". Jones is characterized by his iconic accoutrements (bullwhip, fedora, satchel, and leather jacket), wry sense of humor, deep knowledge of ancient civilizations and languages, and fear of snakes. Since his first appearance in ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", Indiana Jones has become one of cinema's most famous characters. In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked him the second greatest film hero of all time. He was also named the 1st Greatest Movie Character by ""Empire"" magazine. ""Entertainment Weekly"" ranked"
"Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone is the ninth of 12 Indiana Jones novels published by Bantam Books. Max McCoy, the author of this book, also wrote three of the other Indiana Jones books for Bantam. Published on April 1, 1995, it is preceded by ""Indiana Jones and the White Witch"" and followed by ""Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs"". Indiana Jones hunts down an English alchemist, a Renaissance scholar and a stolen manuscript containing the great alchemical secrets of immortality and transmuting base metals to gold. The book was published only in paperback"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as ""Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark"") is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd., with Lucas and Howard Kazanjian as executive producers. The first installment in the ""Indiana Jones"" film franchise, it stars Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones, who battles a group of Nazis searching for the Ark of the Covenant. It co-stars Karen Allen as Indiana's former lover, Marion"
"A comic book was also created for the canceled game, ""Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny"". Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix is a Dark Horse Comics limited series starring the fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones. It was the seventh ""Indiana Jones"" limited series by Dark Horse, and the sixth about the adult Indiana. The comic was based on a canceled LucasArts video game, a sequel to ""Fate of Atlantis"" (which was also the first Dark Horse ""Indiana Jones"" comic). The comic is set after World War II, with the Nazis seeking the Philosopher's"
"2018, but Ford was not involved in the production. Ford's status as a leading actor was solidified when he starred as globe-trotting archeologist Indiana Jones in the film ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981), a collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford from the beginning, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in ""American Graffiti"" and ""Star Wars"", but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept. Ford went on to star in the prequel ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" (1984) and the sequel ""Indiana"
"and ""was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol,"" though no further legal action about the matter was reported in the local newspaper. Thomas was also working on a sequel to ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" before she died. Details of what would have been the third Indiana Jones film are sketchy, other than that it was set in a haunted mansion. Steven Spielberg, however, was reportedly resistant to the haunted mansion approach, feeling it too closely resembled his earlier film ""Poltergeist"". At the time of her death, Thomas had completed the first draft. Following her death,"
"important than finding the relic. The fourth film, ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"" (2008) is set in 1957: nineteen years after ""The Last Crusade"", thus acknowledging the real-life passing of years between films. Indiana is having a quiet life teaching before being thrust into a new adventure. He races against agents of the Soviet Union, led by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) for a crystal skull. His journey takes him across Nevada, Connecticut, Peru, and the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Indiana is faced with betrayal by one of his best friends, Mac (Ray Winstone), is introduced to"
"a greaser named Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf), who turns out to be his son (his real name revealed to be Henry Jones III), and is reunited with, and eventually marries, Marion Ravenwood, who was introduced in the first movie. During 1973, George Lucas wrote ""The Adventures of Indiana Smith"". Like ""Star Wars"", it was an opportunity to create a modern version of the movie serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Lucas discussed the concept with Philip Kaufman, who worked with him for several weeks and decided upon the Ark of the Covenant as the MacGuffin. The project was stalled when"
"also a map, leading readers into the desert and the most ancient and magnificent crypt in the world, where Indiana Jones will either witness an astounding miracle of alchemy, or become the tomb's next inhabitant. Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone is the ninth of 12 Indiana Jones novels published by Bantam Books. Max McCoy, the author of this book, also wrote three of the other Indiana Jones books for Bantam. Published on April 1, 1995, it is preceded by ""Indiana Jones and the White Witch"" and followed by ""Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur"
"(in reference to the fact that fellow director Martin Scorsese regularly casts Robert De Niro in his films). During an intensive casting process, Lucas and Spielberg auditioned many actors, and finally cast actor Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones. Shortly afterward pre-production began in earnest on ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"". However, CBS refused to release Selleck from his contractual commitment to ""Magnum, P.I."" (which was gradually gaining momentum in the ratings), forcing him to turn down the role. One of CBS's concerns was that shooting for ""Magnum P.I."" conflicted with shooting for ""Raiders"", both of which were to begin about"
"release, the film was the 11th highest-grossing film of all time. Despite competition from ""Batman"", ""The Last Crusade"" became the highest-grossing film worldwide in 1989. In North America, ""Batman"" took top position. Behind ""Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"" and ""Raiders"", ""The Last Crusade"" is the third-highest grossing Indiana Jones film in North America, though it is also behind ""Temple of Doom"" when adjusting for inflation. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 49 million tickets in North America. The film opened to mostly positive reviews. It was panned by Andrew Sarris in ""The New York Observer"", David Denby"
"Men in Black II Men in Black II (stylized as MIIB) is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub and Rip Torn. The film is a sequel to the 1997 film ""Men in Black"" and was followed by ""Men in Black 3"", released in 2012. This series of films is based on the comic book series ""The Men in Black"" by Lowell Cunningham. A video game partly based on the film was released in 2002, titled """". Five years"
"Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils is the third of 12 Indiana Jones novels published by Bantam Books. Rob MacGregor, the author of this book, also wrote five of the other Indiana Jones books for Bantam. Published on November 1, 1991, it is preceded by ""Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants"" and followed by ""Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge"". After barely escaping with his life from an archaeological dig in Tikal, Guatemala, Dr. Henry Jones Jr. makes his way back to New York. There he learns of the recent discovery of"